SOVIET JAMMING OF VOICE OF AMERICA BROADCASTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005700700005-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 2, 2010
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 19, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Soviet Jamming of Voice of America
Broadcasts
TNI SOURCE !VALUATIONS IN TINS TORT AN O(P9N Vl.
TNI APPRAISAL OP COMM 4 MffAYIVe.
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2.
lis probably some MVD oontrol.1
Voice of America
This material contetns hnformetion affecting the Na-
tional Defines of the United States within the mean-
ing of the Sepionso laws. This 18, U A-0. Boo. 780
end 04, the treenuftam or rs tlation of which in
any menace to an, tloawdWrosd Osrson Is prohibited
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DATE DISTR. .. 19 January 1955
NO. OF MMES
REQUIREMINT NO.
in Moscow. At
times the broadcasts can be heard; at others, yuare ted out by jam-
ming. Transmissions are much easier to pick up about 35 kilometers outside
of Moscow. Reception is mob better when German rather than American or
Soviet vacuum tubes are used in the radio not.
J ng a pmen In designed engineers of the Committei of Radio Direction
Finding and Radio Information of the Council of Ministers. One engineer
received a Stalir Prize am=ximately 1949 for the deAian n!P the pment.
it
appears measures are being taken to prevent the hearing of
the VOL oac.cas s.
3. Prior to World War II, it was possible in the Soviet Union to find handbooks
giving information on all of the radio stations of the world, including call
letters and hours of operation. Now it is not possible for the general public
to find these books, although they may still be used by officials in the Com-
munications Institute.
1? jarmning is the respon-
s y special units et Armgr Signal Troops and that attached
to these units are representatives of the First Chief Directorate of the MVD.
: The Moscow Telephone Directory lists a Committee on
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